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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back.

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Cyber-Security Dangers of Repealing Net Neutrality

Galido

Net neutrality is the principle that governments have put in place directing Internet Service Providers (ISP) to treat all internet traffic the same. Due to the recent decision of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which resulted in the repealing net neutrality, ISPs will now have control of internet usage.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

The majority of these attacks are due to hacking, fraud and social engineering. Social engineering is a methodology that enables a perpetrator to persuade or induce an individual to provide sensitive information or access to the unauthorized perpetrator. Top Internet Security Software [8]. Most Active Malware Today.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. I am a coordinator, the Coalition Against Spyware. What about social media? So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident.

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The vibe shift in Silicon Valley

The Verge

A vibe shift, she wrote, is “a relatively simple idea: In the culture, sometimes things change, and a once-dominant social wavelength starts to feel dated.”. In particular, I’ve been working on how to apply it to my chosen field: tech journalism, which is driven as much by social wavelengths as any other part of our culture.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

What is the best case that Facebook unfairly dominates the advertising market, uses its power to reduce competition, and has harmed consumers by doing so? Facebook (with Google) now has an effective duopoly on digital advertising, and continues to acquire smaller social products that could threaten its dominance.